Corruption and Economic Growth: Some New Empirical Evidence from a Global Sample

This paper assesses the impact of corruption control and regulation quality on growth across countries over the period 1996 through 2015. After dealing with the possible endogeneity problem through the dynamic panel data models, our findings are suggestive of the positive effects of corruption control. Thus, our analysis tends to support the ‘sand the wheels' view at the aggregate level as well as for lower and lower–middle‐income countries....